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Erling has anyone ever told you you look a bit like Morton Harket from A Ha? gogo

Great pics Jun! Hey, tell me honestly...is there ever a time when you're not smiling? The pics show great spirit with you, your wife and your friends. gogo

lol, you got a a new title of Fellowship! And, your permissions were adjusted so that you can see a few more forums, notably the voting section. Regarding sigs, you can use any of the D.a.r.k Devices that Schot has made, and, of course, we have a lot of peeps here who have made sigs... you can use any that me and/or Schot are using or... maybe someone can help you out with your own if offered pizza ^^ Stubbie, I'm really glad you're here dude. Cheers! gogo

Dang, Ike He's got the toughest moons on the block it seems. Great the rips survived though lol, you're going to try again, right? Leave...him... nothing! gogo

They're being nitpicky. Classic bureaucracy. Stick with it Jun, eventually bureaucracy runs out of of forms to peddle. They may have a lot of excuses to shoot at you, but if you stay strong, you'll make it through. gogo

New site's working pretty good Schot. Regarding the movie, not too sure how great the villain is, looks kinda hokey...but... the movie looks nice and expensive... just the way I like 'em. gogo

heh, I saw the trailer for this and I laughed. Sort of reminds me of that movie with Urma thermon in it is Supergirl. Big fan of Will Smith here, and I haven't seen him in anything funny since... it must be Fresh Prince? gogo

Thank you again Nightwolfe. You put a lot of yourself into your answers and it looks like the fans really loved seeing the personal side of you that was an integral part of what it took to put Wolfe's Lair together. Dedication, hard work, good research and an ear for the fans. It's showing. Great interview. gogo

Great find Do you think they're actually going to have music with lyrics in it? hmmm...has this ever been done before for a video game? Just hearing the track got me thinking about this... I've myself have never heard songs with words in it during a video game, but, I think it could really change the whole impact... Another first for Sacred here? gogo

Hollee..now THAT'S a cookie! lol, way better than the ones I get when I visit sites Stubbie, you're here, you're here, welcome to the Clan! Finally, welcome to D.a.r.k! gogo

Good Lord Don't kill him too many times Genenut, lol And sorry about the downtime for Lord, I hope the reinstall goes well...that kind of thing can be tricky. It's happened a few times where I had to do that. Wasn't a happy camper gogo

LOL! That is a fantastic, themed event As we get closer to Sacred 2, it would be fun having just plain ole "fun" events like this. The idea of a seraphim with a bunch of glads is awesome! Sacred Tag! gogo

Yeah, aren't the crossbows fantastic? You cannot realize how fast she fires. It's almost like they made a mistake when coding the rate of fire... And plus if she's in the air...you can keep strafing over and over...definitely one of the more fun ideas to try out. gogo

There's a page here on Sacred Wiki if this helps on ideas on setting it up: http://sacredwiki.org/index.php5/Weapon_Slots I myself use a nostromo ^^ Having the slots all arranged and locked that way on the keyboard wasn't very useful for me when I was doing builds with a ton of Combat Arts running off at once: gogo

This is what you do Buy the second Guild Wars cheap from the other store...then return it to the first store...the one that you bought your game from...and tell them you want a refund giving them the game from the second store ^^ They get an unopened game...and you pay a lesser price gogo p.s. Erling, great to see you're into that game. I miss GW so much. It was probably even a better online experience that Sacred... we had to give it up when the time came around to ramp up for Sacred 2. I hope you have an awesome time...and who knows...maybe one day it would be fun to check out the game. It's online world is incredible, and having to work with a team is unbelievably satisfying when it works great.

With deut goin for more than 1.26 a liter here in montreal, savings are, I bet, appreciated. And great Hoff, Ike... the BC's are lookin good Gratz! gogo

The newest Screenshot of the Week from the Sacred International Forum features a gamecam shot of the Seraphim fighting while mounted on her Tiger! gogo

Nightwolfe is the creator and owner of Wolfe's Lair, one of the oldest and largest fansites for Sacred on the net. Wolfe's lair is particularly well-known for the depth with which it has documented this game, paying particular attention to detailed quest guides and lengthy research in regards to game content. She also does work for the Sacred International Forum as it's reference writer and edits the forum's Faq Section. Of course Nightwolfe is a member of DarkMatters as well I'd like to thank Nightwolfe for her time and efforts both here and at Wolfe's Lair, and for taking the time to answer some interview questions. Thanks Nightwolfe! =========================================== Can you give us a brief bio? Oh jeez I always stink at bios, never sure what or how much to include. Let's see... I am pretty boring actually, I'm just a stay at home mom with too much time on my hands. When you're not busy working on your site, what do you do to relax? I play video games of course! My current obsession is Elder Scrolls: Oblivion on my new PS3. I looove to read. I also like to do crafty things while I watch TV like making chainmail jewelry or knitting. Is there a special someone in your life... and perhaps some Mini-Nightwolfes running around? I am married to the most wonderful man in the world, our third anniversary is coming up in a couple of weeks although we have been together for almost 9 yrs and we have a beautiful 6 yr old daughter. Got a favorite dish you love to make or especially love to prepare for others? Oh I am a horrible cook, probably the worst on earth! In case you don't believe me I'll tell you all a little story. We lived in an apartment for a short while that had a gas stove and I had never used a gas stove in my life. Well I attempted to make fried eggs but evidentially I had the stove on too high because when I put the butter in the pan it caught on fire. It totally destroyed the pan and scared the heck out of my husband who woke up to the smell of smoke! What are some of your favorite snacks you can be seen munching on while working on your site or playing Sacred? I don't really snack much, in fact I just don't eat as much as I probably should to begin with. But I just about always have a cup of coffee and a cigarette nearby when messing around on the computer. What is your educational background? I actually have no educational background. I dropped out of high school freshman year and got my GED. In my defense though I DID score very, very high on it. Looking back I wish I had found a way to take a few tests to just skip a few grades and graduate early rather than dropping out but I was only academically smart back then. I was a total idiot in most other ways. I did try college for a while when I was 16 but it just wasn't for me at the time and I ended up leaving. I do hope to go back one day if I can figure out what the heck I want to study. What was it that inspired you to create Wolfe's Lair? Kinda funny story actually, or I think it is anyway... One day I was playing and discovered the Unknown Warrior series. I had never heard anyone talk about it before and since there isn't any quest log message pointing you to the next part in the series I figured that just very few people had ever figured it out. Well at the time I was part of a clan that hasn't existed in years and we had a forum. So I wrote up a very simple text tutorial and posted it. Well I discovered pretty quickly that I was the ONLY person in my clan that pretty much ever did quests so none of them cared about my discovery. But I thought it was so neat that I wanted to share it with people. So I decided to create my own forum that would be open to everyone so I could post it there (plus by then I had made a few other discoveries). Then people started asking questions and I noticed that the same questions were being asked over and over so I started writing new tutorials to answer these common questions. Well it got to the point that I had so many tutorials on my simple Proboards forum and I was getting so many visitors coming to see them that I ended up having 5 different free image hosting accounts just to keep the images accessible with the bandwidth limits that the free accounts had. But I was still being flooded with requests and ideas for things people wanted to see on Wolfe's Lair. So I decided that I had to put it all on a normal webpage that would host its own images. Besides being the busy owner of Wolfe's Lair, is there another job in your life, something else besides your attention to your site that sometimes pulls you away? Well they say being a mother is a 24 hr a day job so I guess that counts. But no I am just a stay at home mom. When did you realize that you'd been bitten by the video gaming bug? Well about 8 yrs ago I thought video games were only for kids and guys. No really, I did! But my husband forced me to play a game called Blood Omen on his Playstation. I thought I was going to hate it until I realized that I had been playing for 5 hrs straight! LOL As soon as I finished that game I begged him for another and I just haven't stopped since. Is Wolfe's Lair the first site you've created...where and when did you learn how to do all the coding? Yes it is and when I started I had NO IDEA what the heck I was doing. I thought it was going to be so hard and the whole idea scared me at first. But it ended up not being that difficult after all. Of course I cheat, I used Microsoft Frontpage which does all the coding for me. Only once in a while have I had to write out any coding by hand and that is just to fix things that I can't get the program to do the way I want. But I am all self taught. The world wide web is such a WONDERFUL place! Can you tell us a few games you've played which you especially enjoyed and why? Well there is of course Blood Omen which as I said is what really got me into gaming. Also when I was a young kid I really loved the original Zelda on the first Nintendo system. I was addicted to Diablo and D2 for years. I also loved Final Fantasy VII and X, the Legend of the Dragoon and Kingdom Hearts. Right now I am totally obsessed with Oblivion. I just love RPGs! Particularly, ones that have tons and tons of quests and that keep you busy for a long playing experience. The bigger the world and the more customization you get the better. Wolfe's lair is obviously the work of hundreds of hours... why such drive, what makes you keep looking to add to it? Mostly it is you guys actually. As I explained above it started out really small with just a few things I wanted to share with people that I didn't think they might find themselves. But the more popular it became the more requests I got for info. and it just hasn't stopped. Now it is at a point where it is SO complete that on the rare occasions I think of something (or someone mentions something) that isn't included I feel like I HAVE to add it just because it is so close to having EVERYTHING that is SHOULD have everything LOL. I am such a perfectionist/completionist! Do you ever sleep? LOL of course I do! Although I will admit there were times that I would spend ten hours straight working on my site you have to take into consideration that I am a stay at home mom so I am home all day. Plus I'll take any excuse I can get to procrastinate when it comes to the housework haha. I remember reading a while back that you had a precise "vision" of how you wanted your Sacred guides to look, what they would have as content compared to other quest FAQs that had been produced and that you wanted to improve upon them. Can you tell us what that difference was for you and what you wanted your guides to be noted for? Well basically I just wanted them to be very, very easy to follow. I don't know how many times I have gotten stuck in a game and when I tried to read a tutorial somewhere it just made me more confused. So many guides out there are written in such a way that they just seem really vague or the people writing them are so experienced in the game that they forget to include some piece of info that a totally new player might need to know. The other thing with experienced players of all multiplayer games is that they tend to come up with common nicknames for places and then use those nicknames as landmarks when trying to explain something. Here I'll give you an example... say that someone wants to know where to find the Azathot "Bounty". A lot of people would tell the person that it can be found on the Western edge of the "Goblin Lawn". Well for new players that isn't telling them anything since they haven't a clue what the "Goblin Lawn" is. Not to mention the amount of things people tend to abbreviate in guides! So anyway, that really long explanation is just basically saying I wanted anyone and everyone to very, very easily be able to follow my guides. I didn't want them to have to guess at anything or wander around trying to find the exact locations for things. A huge part of my fix for that is that I used screenshots for EVERYTHING. That way there was no risk whatsoever of them not finding the right place or the right NPC or anything else. It's wonderful how your work on Wolfe's Lair was so impressive that GameSpy, one of the internet's most popular gaming sites, sponsored you. Can you tell us how that happened, and how it affected your site? Well it was pretty easy once I discovered them actually. I had tried many different free hosts that failed horribly because of their unreliability and bandwidth limits and then I heard about GameSpy so I filled out an application and linked them to my site. They looked at it and a week later said they were impressed and would love to host my site. I also really lucked out because they didn't yet have any sites dedicated to Sacred. If they had they might have decided they didn't need another one. The best thing about it is that I have unlimited storage and bandwidth with them so I never have to worry about the site being temporarily shut down or have to limit how much stuff I have available for you guys. With the upcoming release of Sacred 2, many new Sacred fan and clan sites have sprouted up all over the net. How do you feel about this, and do you have any advice to others that want to build personal Sacred Fan sites as impressive as yours...Is there any secret? To be honest I have never handled competition very well LOL. But I think it is great that so many people are showing such enthusiasm for the game that I looove so much. It is also very interesting to see what things different people tend to focus on when building there own sites. I obviously am a quest addict myself. The secret? You want to know the secret!?! How dare you even ask! ROFLOL 2biggrin.gif Honestly though the secret to my site it two different things... One is that I have lots and lots and LOTS of free time on my hands that I can dedicate to my site (many of those hours should probably have been put towards cleaning my house or other such things though). The second is that I have had a lot of people be really helpful. Particularly in the beginning I had AREA666 (Valencia on this forum) and Deonhower Colmyne who helped me by writing many of guides when they were on the forum as well as taking TONS of screenshots for me. Unfortunately, I have edited and updated so much since then that very little of their work is left. However, if it weren't for the two of them the whole project would have so overwhelmed me that there would be no Wolfe's Lair today. With you as the creator and final say on all of the content that is on Wolfe's Lair, do you find contributions from the Sacred Community to be of help regarding research and game info? Oh of course I do! For one the technical stuff is totally beyond me. Particularly the mathematical formulas for figuring stuff out. I am lucky if I can follow the already written formula let alone trying to come up with the formulas myself! Plus things in game can sometimes be a tad different depending on character, game version, patch, etc. and I don't have all versions with all the different stages of the patches and there are some characters that I just don't like to play so I often am asking people to check into this or that for me. Those are just two of the things that I absolutely depend on the community to help me with. But it also is very nice to not HAVE to do all the legwork for everything on the things I am capable of doing myself. I am especially going to be depending on the community to help me out a lot with the release of Sacred 2. There is no way I will be able to get guides up as fast as people will want them on everything people will want to see even WITH some help so I am going to be needing all the help I can get. When you first began working on Wolfe's Lair did you find the task very daunting? Creating a resource like Wolfe's Lair is no doubt a big undertaking. And were there times when you just wanted to throw your hands up in the air and yell out... "There's so much to do!" Oh definitely, I felt that way a hundred times. But then I would think "Hey I already did all this work and I refuse to trash it, but I also don't want a have an uncompleted site just sitting there with no updates either". So I kept working at it. If you could reverse time to the early days of creating your Sacred site, and could change one thing in regards to how it got set up, what would it be? I think it would just be the overall setup and look that it has now. I am really happy with it at the moment but before the current look I have probably had 10 or more different color schemes, graphic sets and layouts. Just updating these things on every page as I came up with better ways of doing things or better looks took hours and hours of work. Regarding Sacred 2, what are your feelings regarding the two paths of light and dark? Do those two paths mean double the amount of documentation and work for you? How does the much larger size of Fallen Angel make you feel? Well I have two totally different prospectives regarding the size of Sacred 2. As a gamer I am insanely excited, the bigger the better. I looove a game that takes me months to complete every aspect of. I especially LOVE choices! Where your decisions in game effect how the rest of the game/quest turns out. But from the prospective of the Wolfe's Lair creator I am screaming in terror. Ascaron what are you doing to me! Oh jeez, the amount of hours of work it will take just to do a single path is frightening, but two totally different paths!?! This is going to be a HUGE task. But don't worry guys! You will continue to see Sacred 2 on Wolfe's Lair and I greatly appreciate all the info. that Ascaron has been slowly leaking out about different aspects of the game. It allows me to get a bit of a head start in some areas. What are you looking forward to the most from Sacred 2? Hmmmm..... I don't know..... EVERYTHING! I really couldn't pick one thing. I mean there is the very interesting idea of the dark and light paths. There are all the new character types. The fact that it is a HUGE 3D world. The very cool special mounts. The amazing graphics. Not to mention the fact that a lot of old friends will be returning to us upon the release. There just isn't anything NOT to look forward to! What does the future hold for NightWolfe? Only time will tell.....

Carolyn Hacker has posted in the SIF news of a contest that features new video footage with each installment in this trilogy. Contest Announcement First of 3 Contest Videos Discussion thread on SIF Best of luck to everyone who partakes! gogo Follow the steps of the Shadow Warrior - video story trilogy event Hello Heroes! It's contest time again, this time around we're doing another writing contest. Not just another writing contest though, there's a twist - you'll be writing a story to accompany a short trilogy of videos. Please note that these videos were made specifically for this contest, so the content is specifically captured for the contest rather than videos to highlight the gameplay or world. I can hear you now "that doesn't sound tricky" - but the catch is that the videos will be posted at weekly intervals, and once the new video goes up you can't edit your story for any previous ones. So you'll need to be really creative and leave it open-ended enough to carry forward when the next video is posted. It might be helpful to our participants if you speculate about what will happen in the next video in the discussion thread. Summary and Video Schedule: April 22 - 1st, submissions accepted. April 29 - 2nd video posted, submissions for 1st video closed, 2nd video opened. May 06 - 3rd video posted, submissions for 2nd video closed, 3rd video opened. May 13 - Submissions for 3rd video closed, judging begins. Judging will be done by a panel of Ascaron representatives. May 27 - Winner announced. Prize - Winner will receive a Sacred 2 T-shirt. You can watch the 1st video here, post submissions for the 1st video here and discuss the entire contest here. Here's a sample story for the first video to stimulate your creativity: Quote: For many years he ruled the battlefield, he fought, slaughtered and won battle after battle for his sovereign. He deserved his well earned rest in the golden halls of fame. But the High Elves had different plans. Torn out of paradise, there was only one thing left for the Shadow Warrior… one single thought, that made his unnaturally extended life worthwhile. His family. A long journey lies ahead of him. So many years have passed since he left this place. Will the elders still be alive? Will his brothers still recognize him? Will…? But wait… what is this? Silently the warrior moves nearer and his dead eyes meet the corpse of a cow. Slain by a fork? The deadly silence of the town quickens the feet of the Warrior, and then he sees them. Everywhere the floor is filled with the bodies of the town guards, the corpses already so worn away by time that identification is impossible. All marks of the battle have already vanished into the dusty sand of earth. “You go! This now our town be!” barks a deep voice from the side. One Orc warrior jumps out of his hideout and takes up a position in front of the Shadow Warrior. “The rotting stench from your mouth is the only thing you own!” growls the former soldier. The fight is short, the squealing Orc provides a short sensation of satisfaction, but it is not enough by far to ease the lust for revenge in the Shadow Warrior's dead heart. Like a gleam in the darkest night, the sunbeams reflect in the old sword of one of the dead guards, right next to the former soldiers feet. The Shadow Warrior takes it. “You will regret this!” His long journey to find revenge starts. One Orc after another falls to his rage. Not a single Orc warrior can stand against him, not even the best! But still… the Shadow Warrior's need for revenge is not satisfied. Where might his journey lead? Enjoy! Your Sacred 2 Team

I think trying to figure out what this account is up to and who's in control of it is on people's minds these days. TY for the heads up gogo

I was watching as Schot was getting this attempted...I think the biggest draw for me was that it's a competing OS that's not microsoft and open source. A different way of making products, and inspiring to see it it can work... lol, specially as Microsoft says it will bring about the end of the world gogo

Great seeing you back Sil And...my nostromo is looking to getting fixed pretty soon...looking forward to getting back on the servers with a Daemon! gogo

Hey Chrenus! I've always wanted to run a crossbow Daemon. The rate of fire they get with the weapon is akin to a machine gun. I've seen a very unique crossbows that I've used a few times. With daemons, I've always found it easy to change forms at almost no cost to the build...you don't need to many runes to switch to a flyer, and then flipping on a crossbow makes for a very fast moving, strafing toon... very fun to play, and as peeps here have posted, when combined with tentacles, quite fun. The Daemon uses a lot of fire, and the synergy with Infernal Power is almost outrageous. Finding a Cross bow that uses Fire based damage can really amp the damage. gogo

Was hoping you especially would see this Sil. Hope it helps, if you're ever gonna give it a go again. I'm rootin fer ya! gogo

Yaga have a good vac, and yeah...mix a bit of both why dontcha gogo